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General The Department of Language and Communication of the Faculty of Arts brings linguists from various language backgrounds together in one department and is responsible for a range of BA and MA degrees in the Faculty. The Spanish language section contributes Spanish linguistics and Spanish language skills courses to various BA degrees. The faculty has a so-called double-major system, where students combine two major programmes. The Spanish major programme is an option for students of English, Communication & Information Sciences, Linguistics, and Dutch.

Job description Teaching: You will teach at all levels within the BA programmes to which the Spanish language section contributes Research: You will carry out linguistic research on discourse-oriented phenomena in the Spanish language. Your research will be part of the Language, Cognition and Communication (LCC) research group, which participates in the interfaculty research institute CAMeRA (www.camera.vu.nl). Management: You will contribute to the restructuring of the Spanish major progamme.

Requirements - You have a PhD in Spanish Linguistics or a related discipline; - You have relevant teaching experience in Higher Education; - You have experience of integrating ICT in teaching; - You have excellent communicative and organizational skills. - You are qualified as a teacher (BKO) or prepared to get a BKO (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs)

Appointment details - This is a 60% position, available not later than 1 Feburary 2010; - The appointment will be for a period of two years, after which continuation of this position will evaluated; - General conditions of employment can be found at www.vu.nl/vacatures; - Non-native speakers of Dutch will be expected to have developed a relevant command of the Dutch language within a period of two years.

Salary The maximum gross monthly salary will be € 4.374,- on the basis of a fulltime position (salary scale 11).

Other Please write the vacancy number in your application and on the outside of the envelope (top left corner) or in the subject line of your email application.